Entrant for the Darwin Awards?
Jul 5th 2011 | 4:14 am
#16
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Re: Entrant for the Darwin Awards?
Do Sikhs get an exemption from wearing a helmet as they do in the UK?
Jul 5th 2011 | 5:02 am
#18
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Re: Entrant for the Darwin Awards?
I used to get motorbike taxis in Bangkok all the time as it was the fastest and cheapest way to get around. Hardly ever wore a helmet. Used to sit on the back and smoke a cigarette on the way to the pub or work or wherever I was going.
In the morning you see office girls riding side saddle on the back and putting their makeup on etc.
A bit like this:
No laws to protect people from their own idiocy there. Admittedly the road death rate is quite high.
In the morning you see office girls riding side saddle on the back and putting their makeup on etc.
A bit like this:
No laws to protect people from their own idiocy there. Admittedly the road death rate is quite high.
Jul 5th 2011 | 5:14 am
#19
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From: Upstate South Carolina
Re: Entrant for the Darwin Awards?
I seem to recall similar "I want the freedom to choose" arguments when seatbelt use was made mandatory, but no one seems to question it now.
The only US state that doesn't mandate seatbelts is New Hampshire. Without any irony the tag line on the NH plates is "Life Free or Die"
Jul 5th 2011 | 5:25 am
#21
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From: Ontario
Re: Entrant for the Darwin Awards?
I, of course, think motorcyclists should be able to wear what they want. I think the argument that it costs other people for them not to wear helmets is invalid in America and feeble elsewhere, people smoke, drink, have unprotected sex, ride horses (no helmet of course); even the Canadians can't legislate for everything.
Jul 5th 2011 | 5:36 am
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Re: Entrant for the Darwin Awards?
Cos someone has to protect the stupid from themselves, and I dont want to live with the guilt of killing someone in an accident that they could have survived if someone had made them wear a helmet, or the expense as either a tax payer or insurance carrier for taking care of someone who becomes a dribbling vegetable after getting a paralysing head injury that would have been a minor injury otherwise.
Selfish aint I.
Selfish aint I.
If an immigrant gets into a preventable medical predicament that costs the taxpayers money then they should be deported back to their own country and their permanent residency should be cancelled.
Jul 5th 2011 | 5:47 am
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Re: Entrant for the Darwin Awards?
Jul 5th 2011 | 5:52 am
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